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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

MH370: Former PM Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad Asking the Right Questions

UPDATE 20 May 2013: This verbatim update was just received this morning.

"KUALA LUMPUR –
Dr Mahathir Mohamad, former prime minister and one of the most
influential figures in Malaysia’s ruling party, has said information
about flight MH370 is being hidden and the Australian-led search for the
plane off Western Australia is a waste of time and money.

The
plane’s disappearance on March 8 was most likely not an ordinary crash
after fuel was exhausted, he said. “The plane is somewhere, maybe
without MAS [Malaysia Airlines] markings,” he said. “It is a waste of
time and money to look for debris or oil slick or to listen for pings
from the black box,” he said.

Dr
Mahathir, 88, who was prime minister for 22 years from 1981, wrote in
his personal blog that he could not imagine that the pilots made a soft
landing in rough seas and then quietly went down with the aircraft.
“Someone is hiding something. It is not fair that MAS and Malaysia
should take the blame,” he wrote.

He
believed that the Central Intelligence Agency of the US had knowledge
of the disappearance of the plane with 239 people on board but was not
sharing it with Malaysia. Boeing, the plane’s maker, and certain
government agencies, have the ability to remotely take over control of
commercial airliners such as the missing Boeing 777, he said.

“For
some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or
the CIA,” he said. In another blog last month, Dr Mahathir, who remains a
power broker in the ruling United Malays National Organization,
questioned whether the plane crashed into the southern Indian Ocean and
blamed Boeing for its disappearance.

His
comments on MH370 reflect deep suspicion in Malaysia of foreign
involvement in the plane’s disappearance despite Prime Minister Najib
Razak saying last week that nobody knew what happened on board, or
precisely where the plane was, more than two months after it
disappeared.

Najib
said experts had identified that MH370 ended in the southern Indian
Ocean, where the search was focused, discounting dozens of other
theories and reported sightings. But Dr Mahathir also wrote that the
planes don’t just disappear in presence of all powerful communications
systems."

This military intelligence posting came my way in an email late yesterday (19MAY14), and it is reported here exactly as I received it. The right questions are being asked by Malaysia's former Prime Minister, and he also raises an issue that none have dared to raise before.

"Former Prime Minister Tun Dr
Mahathir Mohamad on Sunday suggested that Boeing and the Central
Intelligence Agency should be questioned over the missing Flight MH370.

"Someone
is hiding something. It is not fair that Malaysian Airlines (MAS) and
Malaysia should take the blame," he said in his blog Chedet.cc.

In
his 11-paragraph long post, Mahathir expressed his viewpoints and
theories on the situation and stressed that something was out of place
and that the media would not post anything about Boeing or CIA.

"They
can land safely or they may crash, but airplanes do not just disappear.
Certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems
which operate almost indefinitely and possess huge storage capacities,”
Mahathir said.

Stating
that he believes the tracking system on the plane was intentionally
disabled, Mahathir questioned on where was the data of the plane, which
was supposed to have been recorded by the satellite.

"MH370
is a Boeing 777 aircraft. It was built and equipped by Boeing, hence
all the communications and GPS equipment must have been installed by
Boeing.

"If
they failed or have been disabled, Boeing must know how it can be done
and surely Boeing would ensure that they cannot be easily disabled as
they are vital to the safety and operation of the plane," he said.

He
added that in 2006, Boeing received a US patent for a system that, once
activated, removes all control from pilots to automatically return a
commercial airliner to a pre-determined landing location.

He cited Flightglobal.com
article by John Croft dated Dec 1, 2006, stating that the
‘uninterruptible’ autopilot would be activated – either by pilots, on
board sensors or even by radio or satellite links by government agencies
like the Central Intelligence Agency, if terrorists attempt to gain
control of the flight deck.

"Clearly
Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over
'uninterruptible control' of commercial airliners of which MH370 is
one," he said.

Mahathir
said attempts to detect the plane by looking for debris and oil slick
was a waste of money, adding that this was not an ordinary crash and
that the plane was somewhere, maybe without MAS’ markings.

"Boeing should explain about this so-called anti-terrorism auto-land system.

"I cannot imagine the pilots made a soft-landing in rough seas and then quietly drown with the aircraft," he added."

6 comments:

It is my belief that a 777 will be used in a suicide bombing not far in the future. Another possibility is that a 777 will be shot down by Israel or another nation because it fails to properly identify on approach. I firmly believe that this aircraft is intact and probably airworthy at this moment. God be merciful to those souls aboard!